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PublishedFebruary 17, 2012
Health care cuts will hurt our state’s economy
The choice to enact the largest tax cut in Maine history is a reverse Robin Hood. It greatly and unfairly benefits the highest-income people at the expense of the neediest, and dramatically increases the state’s financial deficit. No business in our situation would purposely reduce its income. The governor was quoted in the newspaper as […]
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PublishedFebruary 17, 2012
Let budget process take its course through Legislature
I do not have all the answers, but feel that it is unconscionable for the governor to insist that those adults who do not have children should be axed from MaineCare, the state’s Medicaid program, in effect, canceling the only coverage they have. What is Paul LePage thinking? He, obviously, does not have all the […]
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PublishedFebruary 16, 2012
Paper should consider effect of political cartoons
Shame on the newspaper for jumping on the bandwagon in this latest assault against the sensibilities of the members of the Catholic Church, by publishing the odious cartoon of Saturday, Feb. 4. I am appalled that you chose to insult your Catholic readers by this choice. Are there any other religions you would treat accordingly, […]
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PublishedFebruary 16, 2012
Church doesn’t claim ability to cure same-sex attraction
I want to respond to Dr. Janis Petzel’s letter (Feb. 13) concerning the establishment of Courage, a Catholic ministry founded to provide pastoral guidance to persons with same-sex attraction and to those assisting them. While Petzel, I am sure, wants to help others, she labors under a false premise: The Catholic Church makes no claim […]
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PublishedFebruary 16, 2012
Common sense sorely lacking these days
I guess I must be ignorant of the facts, but are there not laws already on the books covering tax evasion? The IRS has arrested many people, including Al Capone, for this. Why are we wasting time and money to fix tax zapping, when laws already exist? If it is already illegal, we should enforce […]
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PublishedFebruary 16, 2012
Justice is meant to be just blind, not stupid
Paul Violette pleaded guilty to theft of an obscene amount of money, taken over the course of his being in charge of our turnpike authority. He is to make “restitution” of about one-third of that illicit total; bond companies are to spring for one-third each of the remainder. A bit of jail time and then […]
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PublishedFebruary 16, 2012
Fund for Healthy Maine focuses on prevention
There has been a great deal of public debate and discussion about the governor’s supplemental budget. The cuts to MaineCare and the Private Non-Medical Institutions have garnered much of the attention, and for good reason. We also should put the proposed cuts to the Fund for a Healthy Maine (FHM) in the spotlight; cuts that […]
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PublishedFebruary 16, 2012
Law already requires 35% of power from renewables
The failure by Maine Citizens for Clean Energy to advance the expansion of Maine’s renewable portfolio standard (RPS) through the referendum process is good news. Its campaign has been notable for its questionable tactics, misleading information and lack of transparency into the wind industry’s role in the proposal. George Smith’s recent column promoting the initiative […]
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PublishedFebruary 15, 2012
LURC bill: Worse government at higher cost
On Thursday, the Legislature’s Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry is scheduled to hold a public hearing on a bill that will give Mainers worse government at a higher cost. LD 1798: “An Act To Reform Land Use Planning in the Unorganized Territory” is the result of concerns raised about the Land Use Regulation Commission. […]
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PublishedFebruary 15, 2012
Land use planning measure has serious flaws
A public hearing on legislation affecting land use in 10 million acres of Maine’s North Woods will be heard at 1 p.m. Thursday in room 206, Cross Building. LD 1798, An Act to Reform Land Use Planning, was supposed to improve planning and permitting efficiencies for the unorganized territories; instead, it will fragment planning, politicize […]
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